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...must-have today. The cell phone--controlled cooler/oven comboa Whirlpool Polara souped up by IBMis just one component. Each family also has an Icebox FlipScreen (a TV with a DVD-CD player and Internet access that hangs from a kitchen cabinet) and a Whirlpool refrigerator equipped with a wireless Web tablet. Everything is networked to the family PC and uses the household's high-speed Internet connection to go online. For the Yacobians of Needham, Mass., this means more fat cables running up from the home office in the basement and a bunch of new network devices around an already...
...with the wireless revolution, phone companies have to beat 'em or join 'em--at the risk of cannibalizing their own business by pitching VOIP services to their customers. But even if the phone companies' long-distance revenues plummet--Vijay Bhagavath of Forrester Research figures that a company with 10,000 employees can reduce its long-distance bill 70%--some of that lost revenue can probably be regained over the long term through value-added services that the voice-data combination is just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications...
...bridge the digital divide?that is if IT spats (who's in charge of issuing Internet domain names, for instance) don't hog the agenda. But do developed countries have that much to offer the digital economies of developing ones? "In the south, it's going to be wireless, more mobile and more affordable too," says Richard Fuchs of the International Development Research Centre. He also notes that "the information economy is moving east," to countries like India and China , which are finding tech solutions that work for them. China last month chose Linux's operating system for a million...
...decided that people have a right to their cell phone numbers, just as they have a right to their home phone numbers. And since cell phones are starting to replace home phones (especially for us college students), it’s only logical that number portability start applying to wireless lines...
...faced cutthroat competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices in a declining PC market, Otellini sat down with his engineering team, which wanted to make a new microprocessor for laptops. His big idea: since laptop owners add wi-fi cards to their machines so that they can surf the Internet wirelessly at any hot spot, why not build wireless connectivity into the chip itself? The result was the Centrino, which was launched this past March and has already netted Intel $2 billion in revenue--about a third of its quarterly total...